Public health authorities said that 2,364 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Friday morning.
Meanwhile, a total of 4,125 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.
As of Friday, Poland had injected almost 1.7 million first doses, while more than 860,000 people have received a second shot, health ministry data showed.
Poland on Friday reported 8,777 new coronavirus infections and 241 more deaths, bringing its total number of cases during the pandemic to 1,623,218 and fatalities to 41,823.
The government on Thursday announced a plan to roll out 16 mobile COVID-19 vaccination units to supplement a network of around 6,000 stationary inoculation centres.
The Polish prime minister’s chief and staff, Michał Dworczyk, who is in charge of the national immunization campaign, has told reporters that the top priority is to vaccinate as many Poles as possible within the shortest possible time.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced in December that his government had secured vaccines for the Polish population from six leading international drug makers.
Dworczyk said this month that the country had ordered almost 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in total, enough to inoculate 58 million people, more than its population of around 38 million.
Michał Dworczyk, the man in charge of Poland's COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Photo: PAP/Łukasz Gągulski
The European Union, of which Poland is part, has struck deals to secure vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Moderna, CureVac, Sanofi-GSK, and Johnson & Johnson.
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said last week that around 6.7 million coronavirus vaccine doses were expected to reach Poland by the end of March, including 4.8 million from Pfizer/BioNTech, 1.15 million from AstraZeneca, and 744,000 from Moderna.
Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski speaks during a press conference this month. Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka
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Source: IAR, gov.pl
